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« on: October 11, 2018, 10:37:00 pm »
I had a question about "The Long Con". I don't think this is a big spoiler, but just in case it's only season 2.
In the flashbacks, Sawyer is playing Cassidy (Madison from FTWD) for a large amount of money she was holding by getting her interested in conning and having her front the money for a fictional "long con". (She is the true long con.) We have a scene between Sawyer and his partner where Sawyer says he wants to back out of the con, and his partner threatens him. The next flashback has Sawyer admitting to Cassidy that she was the target and their deal was fake, only to end up taking the money while he tells her to escape (switching the bags).
But why was the last "twist" necessary? If Sawyer had already decided to go through with the con, why not just go through with the fake deal? It seems like the extra twist was only for the viewers to think that Sawyer had actually decided to come clean, only to find out he's still a scoundrel.
The plan could have been to do the con this way from the beginning, but it seems unnecessary since an exchange is already set up, so again it seems like the extra step is just for the viewer to question Sawyer.
Is the idea here that Sawyer is actually splitting on his partner as well to keep the cash for himself, so he wanted to skip the exchange for the fake deal?
Also, something in Season 3 episode 7/8, Kate breaks the lock on Sawyer's cage and they end up staying together in the cage instead of escaping. Then when they do escape after a fight with the two captives, they close the cage door and Kate grabs a lock from the ground to lock the cage. But the lock could not have come from her cage as she escaped through the bars, and it's unlikely there just happened to be one lying around. So it was likely the one she broke off the cage in the first place. If you force open a lock like she did (with a rock or rod or something), wouldn't it break the locking mechanism?
